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30 articles about cooling in AI news
Ecolab Acquires CoolIT Systems for $4.75B in AI Cooling Bet
Ecolab acquires CoolIT Systems for $4.75B in AI liquid cooling bet. Nvidia endorsement signals strategic alignment with high-density GPU racks.
Ecolab Closes $4.75B CoolIT Buy to Dominate AI Liquid Cooling
Ecolab closed $4.75B CoolIT acquisition to dominate AI liquid cooling. Deal combines thermal tech with water treatment for data centers.
Nvidia Rubin Runs 45°C Liquid Cooling, Cuts Water Use to Near Zero
Nvidia's Rubin servers run 45°C liquid cooling, enabling 100% liquid cooling with zero fans and cutting water use from 2.6M gal/MW/year to near zero.
MIT Spinoff's Nuclear-Inspired Cooling Targets Data Center Water Use
MIT spinoff Infinite Cooling unveiled a nuclear-inspired cooling system that recycles data center heat and water, targeting 40% water use reduction. The tech faces competition from liquid cooling but offers retrofits for existing towers.
Liquid Cooling Hits 15kW: CoolIT Coldplate Quadruples Capacity for AI
CoolIT demoed a 15kW single-phase coldplate, quadrupling capacity, while Vertiv, Accelsius, and LiquidStack launched products targeting scalable AI cooling deployment.
Liquid Cooling Crosses 50% by 2027? Rack Densities Force Shift
AI-driven rack densities are pushing liquid cooling adoption past 50% in new hyperscale builds by 2027, though cost and expertise remain barriers.
Cerebras Reengineers Mechanical Playbook for Wafer-Scale Chip Cooling
Cerebras disclosed three mechanical innovations—vertical power delivery, flexible interposers, and direct-impingement cooling—to prevent wafer-scale chips from cracking, rewriting engineering fundamentals.
Jensen Huang: Orbital datacenters have cooling solved by 'space in space'
Jensen Huang says orbital datacenters' cooling problem is solvable because 'there's a lot of space in space,' pointing to radiative panels in vacuum.
S-Oil, GST Partner on Immersion Cooling for AI Data Centers
S-Oil and GST partner on immersion cooling for AI data centers, targeting 1.1 PUE and 90% water reduction. First deployment 2026 in Korea.
Vertiv Acquires Strategic Thermal Labs for Liquid Cooling
Vertiv acquired Strategic Thermal Labs to add cold plate design expertise to its liquid cooling portfolio, addressing the rising thermal demands of AI workloads in data centers.
OCP Standardizes Data Center Design for Multi-Modal QPU Integration
OCP published data center standards for QPU integration, aiming to standardize quantum-classical hybrid infrastructure. The standard covers rack, power, cooling, and networking.
Microsoft’s $3.3B Wisconsin AI Campus Goes Live, First Building Operational
Microsoft’s $3.3B Wisconsin AI data center campus is now operational, delivering compute capacity. The site, originally planned for Foxconn, uses dry cooling to cut water use 90%.
Schneider Electric & Foxconn Partner on AI Data Center Infrastructure
Schneider Electric and Foxconn announced a strategic collaboration to co-develop next-gen AI data center infrastructure, including reference architectures and modular power/cooling skids. Production begins later this year.
China Deploys 24 MW Underwater AI Data Center Off Shanghai
China activated a 24 MW underwater AI data center with 2,000 servers, using offshore wind and seawater cooling, claiming 30% energy savings.
Thiel-Backed Panthalassa Raises $140M for Wave-Powered AI Data Centers
Panthalassa raised $140M led by Peter Thiel to build wave-powered offshore nodes for AI inference compute, using ocean energy and free cooling.
GUC, Wiwynn Partner on Silicon-to-System AI Infrastructure for Hyperscalers
GUC and Wiwynn partner on silicon-to-system AI infrastructure, integrating SoC design, optical I/O, and liquid cooling for hyperscalers.
ODMs Evolve from Manufacturers to AI Infrastructure Partners
ODMs shift from manufacturing to design/integration partners for AI racks, driven by GPU/ASIC complexity and liquid cooling.
AI Data Center Startup Phononic in Sale Talks at Multi-Billion Valuation
Phononic, a startup building liquid cooling systems for AI data centers, is in talks for a sale that could value it in the multi-billions. This reflects intense market pressure to solve the power and thermal challenges of scaling AI compute.
AI Data Centers Now Consume 10% of US Electricity, With Single Facilities Reaching 400+ Megawatt Loads
Data centers powering AI and cloud computing now account for 10% of total U.S. electricity consumption, with individual facilities reaching 400+ megawatt capacities. New half-mile-long structures require advanced water-cooling systems to manage chips generating 2kW of heat each.
Prefab Data Centers Become Default for AI Buildout
AI demand is making prefabricated data centers the default, cutting build time by 30-50% and supporting 50+ kW per rack power densities.
95% of Announced Nvidia Blackwell GPUs Yet to Deploy
95% of announced Nvidia Blackwell GPUs remain undeployed per Air Street Capital, signaling a gap between orders and infrastructure.
Cerebras, Flex Expand CS-3 Production 7x at Milpitas Facility
Cerebras and Flex expand CS-3 production 7x at Milpitas facility. The partnership keeps wafer-scale AI manufacturing in the U.S. as Nvidia faces delays.
Sarasota County Blocks Hyperscale Data Centers for One Year
Sarasota County enacted a one-year moratorium on hyperscale data centers over energy and water concerns, joining Palm Beach County in a growing local backlash against AI infrastructure.
Scale-Across: Cloud Giants Link Datacenters for Million-Accelerator AI Clusters
Cloud providers are linking multiple datacenters for million-accelerator AI clusters, a new 'scale-across' paradigm.
Nvidia's Next-Gen AI Rack Delayed to 2028, SemiAnalysis Says
Nvidia's next-gen AI rack delayed to 2028 on manufacturing snags per SemiAnalysis. Delay benefits AMD and custom silicon rivals.
NVIDIA Blackwell Cuts DeepSeek V4 Token Costs 5x in One Month
NVIDIA claims Blackwell inference stack cut DeepSeek V4 token costs 5x in one month, per a newly published report shared by @rohanpaul_ai.
Water Joins Power as AI Data Center Site Selection Constraint
Water joins power as AI data center site selection constraint, per Emergence Water and Nimbus. Communities now scrutinize water use like electrical demand, affecting campus viability.
Cargo thieves steal $1.3M in AI data center gear
Cargo thieves stole $1.3M in AI data center gear, targeting GPU shipments. Thefts expose supply chain vulnerability as AI hardware demand surges.
Stargate’s $500B AI Buildout Hits Energy and Financing Reality
Stargate, the $500B AI data center initiative backed by OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, has progressed to real construction but faces mounting risks around energy, financing, and community consent.
AI Data Center Scale Doubles Every 7 Months, Epoch Finds
Epoch AI finds AI data center scale doubles every 7 months, driven by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon investments. This accelerates beyond the earlier 12-month cycle, raising training cost projections to $10 billion by 2028.